Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) – Berlin

by WBlackwell on December 10, 2017

The 300-year-old Zeughaus is the most important extant Baroque building in Berlin and the oldest building on Unter den Linden

In the Elector’s Hall we find Victoria and Kaiser Wilhem

 

Field Marshall Schwerin

Cardinals Richelieu & Mazarin

A very damaged Jesus and Martin Luther & his wife

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This tent was taken as booty after Sobieski relived the siege of Vienna in 1683  And George, Elector of Hanover & King George III of England

Louis XVI – France King Frederic Wilhelm II of Prussia

Napoleon by Gerard                 Czar Alexander I, Kaiser Franz I & King Frederic Wilhelm III

Vernet – The Barrier in Clichy  outside Paris

Clark – The Morning after the Battle of Waterloo.  From a field sketch.  When Napoleon fled the field his famous hat & sword were left behind

And this is the first German language copy of the US Declaration of Independence

Barker – Encounter between Marshall Blucher & the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo.  The Duke was heard to have said that he hoped either night or the Prussians would come.  The Prussians attacked Napoleon’s flank in early evening solidifying the victory.   And I just like the boat-shipped swinging baby crib

 

Posters were used by all countries during the first world war

Hindenburg  And the steps to make a helmet

A defiant Germania!

A German attack  And a business owner confronted a mob

Pape- Wilhelm II and family

Lemnark – Otto von Bismark and von Werner – Inauguration of Reichstag by Wilhelm II

Bulow’s Kaiser Wilhelm I in full dress uniform

Bettannair’s The Black Stain  The cessation of Alsace -Lorraine in 1871 was a very sore point for France.

Trubner’s Wounded French Cuirassier

Arnold – Mourning Germania and Bleibtreu – Battle of Koniggratz

Puttner – Sinking of immigrant ship Austria from internal fire  and  Volkmar’s Emigrant’s Farewell

Muller depicts 2 beggar children looking longingly at a wealthy families meal in Christmas Eve.  And Fluggen’s Stockmarket Speculators

 

Stobierski made a model of a crematorium

 

Soon toddy for the crime of being a Jew

Members of the resistance

Cremme – Collapsing Man commemorating the self-liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp

And various statues outside the museum

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